Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south of the Azores (see map), she filed her last "movement report" before transiting the inadequately charted undersea mountains of the mid-Atlantic. Not until six days later was the Navy aware that anything was amiss-and then only when Scorpion failed to report her arrival off the U.S. coast. The cold-war code for U.S. nuclear subs requires them to cruise submerged without any radio signals that might permit nearby Soviet trawlers and hydrographic vessels to calculate for possible future use the nuke routes of the U.S. Navy. The Russians, of course, are well aware of those routes anyway...
WHAT tales of sleuth and intrigue, crime and espionage once lurked the quiet streets of Cambridge. Now forgotten, vestigially commemmorated by half-hearted panty-raids and defiant cross-walk-ins, the grand days of Harvard pranks seem relegated to history along with the Gold Coast...
...Gold Coast is to the Gold Coast Valeteria, so the Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
Bechtel's biggest boost came with World War II, when the company built and operated the Calship and Marinship yards on the West Coast and turned out a total of 560 ships for the Allies. During that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building...
...Baker, Roy Shaw, and Doug Hardin--the stalwarts of Harvard's long-distance corps--and Dick Benka, Ron Wilson, and Charlie Ajootian, the Crimson's strong men, will all make the journey to the West Coast for the June 13-15 meet...